When we left Part 1 of this mini-series on why Pittsburgh artists lose their heads over Shakespeare’s works, I took the liberty of supposing that his wife Anne might have held the clue to …
It was 90 degrees, I had a backpack full of snacks and water bottles and I was hiking from one end of the North Side to the other to catch an outdoor performance; Pittsburgh Fringe was in fu…
Prior to attending the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Nonetheless, I was sure intrigued to find out, especially seeing the words, “experimental performance art…
I finished the Fringe Festival with a midafternoon showing of Critters by Puppets in Performance at the YMRC. I was at this venue on Saturday and it nearly ruined the show for me but I was…
St. Mary’s Lyceum, 11 am is how I began my Saturday Fringe Fest Ukie Fusion, a production by the Slava Dance Company was an eclectic mix of modern and traditional Ukrainian customs narrate…
This year the Fringe Festival is once again held in the beautiful North Side. And it’s almost as if the weather god is also a big fan of this annual unjuried theatre event where we celebra…
Friday April 15, the first night of Pittsburgh Fringe Festival took me to the James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy for Cup-A-Jo Productions, Passing Through. A world premiere play which ta…
After being rejected from the Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, eight theatre companies decided to create their own edgy opportunity by conceiving the Fringe Festival. Fast forward 6…
Two glasses of water sit on a table. One glass is pure, the other poisoned. Richard Keitel reads Nassim Soleimanpour’s words for the first time with revelation, by the end of this performa…
Once more into the past, with a twist. Quantum Theatre’s Kara Boos take us to an adventurous setting via Henrik Ibsen, that master of modernity. The Master Builder, set on the ninth floor …
On my way to the Pittsburgh Playhouse the other night a rare thing happened: I was late. My bus was behind schedule and I had to run down the street, making it to the studio theater at 8:01�…
Around the world this month, as the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s passing, thespians are especially recalling how they “met” Shakespeare. So, I’m now asking other Pittsb…
Pittsburgh’s own Fringe Festival returns to the North Side this April giving audiences the opportunity to explore both international and local one-person shows and performance art. The Fri…
Pittsburgh Opera gave the first of four performances of Gioachino Rossini’s perennial The Barber of Seville Saturday night. The work is probably the most enduring of the composer’s 39 op…
When giving tours as a docent at Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, I gleefully relished showing off a digital copy of a 400-year-old book. The words in the book a…
As the third show of Pittsburgh Musical Theater (PMT)’s “Magnificent Movie Musicals” season this year, Sister Act is an excitingly soulful production filled with blessings, laughs, g…
Sex with Strangers is an examination of anatomy, not solely the physical intimacy that the two characters’ share, but also the anatomy of a writer’s work, how once purely exposed is some…
Whether it’s movies, concerts, sporting events, or plays, everyone has their own form of escapism. Everyone has something they like to attend so they can forget about what’s going on in …
Pittsburgh in the Round is rapidly expanding and we’re looking for a few reviewers and feature writers to add to our team. As you probably know, we write reviews every week, post feature a…
A good play has a message and uses the plot to make that message known. It creates developed characters who go through (usually) trying times and they learn something about themselves by the…
Works of art often inspire news works as Mark Clayton Southers by August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. His Miss Julie, Clarissa and John takes us to a former slave plantation in Virginia in 188…
Pittsburgh’s No Name Players’ theater company staged their 8th annual SWAN Day last Saturday, March 5th, in Oakland’s Twentieth Century Club. The SWAN in SWAN Day is an acronym for sup…
Before I dive into the meat of this review I have to mention everything about this assignment is new to me. This is my first operetta and also my first time seeing a The Pittsburgh Savoyards…
Last Saturday, Bricolage Production Company held its 11th annual Bricolage Urban Scrawl (B.U.S.) event held as an annual fundraiser. Each year, a band of writers take to the bus lines for in…
Mark Clayton Southers experienced August Strindberg’s Miss Julie as translated by Irish playwright Frank McGinnis back in 2008. While attending the Dublin Theater Festival, Southers consid…